Film/Movie Type Events

AUGUST 20, 2013

AFTER AUGUST 20

Sun 11/03/136:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The Hellenic Society Prometheas Presents SMYRNA: THE DESTRUCTION OF A COSMOPOLITAN CITY, 1900-1922

Abramson Family Recital Hall

What was cosmopolitan Smyrna on the coasts of Western Anatolia, like at the beginning of the 20th century? How did the Greeks, the largest Christian community, live side by side with the Muslims, the Levantines, the Armenians and the Jews? What was so unique about this Mediterranean port in the Ottoman Empire, which even today, 90 years after the Destruction is still linked to a joie de vivre ...more